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“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
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“We came out to get Game 1 but we also want to get Game 2”
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“I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before?”
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“The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.”
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“But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.”
Source : "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011. 
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“Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.”
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“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”
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“Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”
Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.351, Random House
